Definition of "overhung" []

• Past tense and past participle of overhang. (verb)
• Suspended from above: an overhung door. (adjective)

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• "He’s been what he calls overhung all day, which means he had a drop too much last night."
• "If then the wheels be overhung, that is, fixed on the ends of the shafts outside the bearings, leaving the outer faces free, the moving foci may be connected by a rigid link A B, as shown."
• "American writer speaks of as overhung by “skies of such limpid clearness, that on several evenings Jupiter’s satellites were seen with the naked eye.”"